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    staging: istallion: fix arbitrary kernel memory reads/writes · 5d46f326
    Vasiliy Kulikov authored
    stli_brdstats is defined as global variable.  After de-BKL-ization in
    the patch b4eda9cb an access to the variable is not serialized
    anymore.  This leads to the race window between the check and the use
    in stli_getbrdstats():
    
            if (copy_from_user(&stli_brdstats, bp, sizeof(combrd_t)))
                    return -EFAULT;
            if (stli_brdstats.brd >= STL_MAXBRDS) <<<
                    return -ENODEV;
            brdp = stli_brds[stli_brdstats.brd];  <<<
    
    If one process calls COM_GETBRDSTATS ioctl() with sane .brd, second
    process calls COM_GETBRDSTATS ioctl() with invalid .brd, and the
    second process' copy_from_user() executes exactly between the check and
    stli_brds[] indexation of the first process, then the first process gets
    contents of memory at *stli_brds[stli_brdstats.brd] address.  Also
    the resulting .nrpanels field may be too big, in this case
    stli_brdstats.panels array overflows.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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